AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

39% slightly better overall score

1289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

23% slightly better gaming score

2434 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

939 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

20.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1114 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

417 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10 W

850% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

872nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-6300 vs Pentium Silver J5040 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Pentium Silver J5040 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Silver J5040 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium Silver J5040 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Pentium Silver J5040. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver J5040.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.